Access World News provides full-text information and perspectives from U.S. and international news sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues. This archive provides comprehensive coverage of current events (history in the making) and historical events. Each newspaper or wire service provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including specific information about local companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and the people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.
This is a collection of several integrated subject databases. It cover a very large body of articles on climate change and related topics, including impacts on agriculture.
Date Coverage: 1967 to present Materials Indexed: Charts & Graphs; Journal Articles
Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts covers both freshwater and marine biology and is an excellent source for impact of climate change on the oceans and marine life.
arXiv is the open access preprint repository for the physics community. It contains hundreds of papers related to climate change, mostly in the areas of modeling and simulation.
Date Coverage: 1991 to present
Materials Indexed: Journal Articles; Preprints; Reports
ATLA indexes the scholarly literature on religion and theology. It contains numerous articles on moral and religious reactions to and implications of climate change from religions all over the world.
Date Coverage: 1946 - present
Materials Indexed: Book Reviews; Journal Articles
BioOne Complete is a collection of over 200 full-text biology journals, including journals on forestry, crop and pasture lands, wildlife management and general ecology and contains many studies of the impact of climate change on these areas.
bioRxiv is the open access preprint server for the biological sciences. It contains the full text of over 4,000 articles dealing with various aspects of climate change biology.
Date Coverage: 2013-present
Materials Indexed: Journal Articles; Preprints; Reports
BIOSIS Citation Index is the most comprehensive index to the literature of all areas of biology, and is an excellent source for the impact of climate change on the biosphere.
Date Coverage: 1926 - present
Materials Indexed: Book Chapters; Books; Conference Proceedings; Journal Articles; Technical Reports
Business Source Complete covers popular magazine, trade journals and scholarly journals dealing with business. It is a good source for articles on the economic impact of climate change, and how businesses and industries are reacting to climate change.
Compendex is the most complete index to the journal and conference literature in engineering. It is a great source for engineering responses to the challenges of climate change.
Data Citation Index indexes datasets contained in public repositories, and links to works which cite them. Over 29,000 datasets related to climate change have been indexed.
Date Coverage: 1900 to present
Materials Indexed: Business Data; Economic Data; Financial Data; Technical Data
Derwent Innovations Index is the world's premier index to the patent literature. It contains enhanced patent titles and abstracts for better keyword searching. This is a useful source for patents related to carbon dioxide capture and disposal.
Date Coverage: 1963 to present
Materials Indexed: Government Documents; Patents & Trademarks
EarthArXiv is the open access repository for preprints in earth and environmental sciences. It currently holds over 200 papers on aspects of climate change.
GeoRef is the premier database indexing the literature of geology. It includes a vast amount of literature on climate change, and is an excellent source for paleoclimatology.
JSTOR is a collection of books and journals on a wide variety of topics, including climate change. Note that for many journals, the most recent six months to five years are not available.
NTRL indexes reports on U.S. government funded research, including a vast amount of material on climate change. Most of these reports are available as free full-text online.
OSTI.GOV is the research database of the U.S. Department of Energy, covering journal articles and technical reports. It holds a huge amount of material on climate change and related topics. Most technical reports are available as free full-text online through the database.
Date Coverage: 1948 to present.
Materials Indexed: Books; Conference Proceedings; Government Documents; Journal Articles; Technical Reports
Philosopher's Index covers the literature of all areas of philosophy, and list over 1,000 articles dealing with the moral, ethical and political philosophy of climate change.
Date Coverage: 1940 - present
Materials Indexed: Books; Journal Articles
ProQuest Congressional provides access to the text of Congressional public hearings, expert testimony, committee reports and the Congressional record, over 4,000 of which mention climate change.
Date Coverage: 1789-present
Materials Indexed: Government Documents; Legal Literature
This database indexes dissertations and theses from numerous colleges and universities across North America and Europe. Recent University of California dissertations are usually available free as PDFs to UCSB users.
Date Coverage: 1861 - present
Materials Indexed: Theses & Dissertations
PsycINFO is the premier index to the psychological literature. It has over 1,800 articles and book reviews on the psychological impact of climate change and people's attitudes toward climate change.
Date Coverage: 1890 - present
Materials Indexed: Book Chapters; Book Reviews; Books; Journal Articles; Technical Reports; Theses & Dissertations
PubMed is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's index to the world's medical literature. It lists over 40,000 articles dealing with climate change, mainly dealing with its impact on human health.
Date Coverage: 1814 - presen
Materials Indexed: Journal Articles
This site has a collection of free books published by the RAND organization, a "think tank" supplying analyses for policy development in a wide variety of areas, including hundreds of papers on environment and energy, many of which touch on climate change, greenhouse gases, clean energy and the like.
Date Coverage: 1948 - present
Materials Indexed: Books
The Roper Center database indexes questions from opinion polls, giving their source, populations sampled and results. There are over 1100 questions pertaining to climate change indexed.
Materials Indexed: Public Opinion Polls; Questionnaire Responses; Statistics
SciFinder-n is the premiere database for chemistry and chemical engineering literature. It is an excellent resource for atmospheric chemistry, greenhouse gas chemistry and CO2 capture and remediation. Note: Access to SciFinder at UCSB requires registration using a ucsb.edu e-mail address.
Dates: 1907 - present, with selected material from 1840 - 1907,
Materials indexed: Conference proceedings, Journal articles, Patents, Preprints, Technical reports, Theses and dissertations
Sociological Abstracts is the primary index to the literature of sociology. It contains over 10,000 papers dealing with the sociological impact of climate change, including public perception of climate change, and its effects on human communities.
Web of Science is a wide-ranging index to scholarly journal articles, conference proceedings and books. It indexes and is searchable by cited references, and contains over 200,000 records dealing with climate change.
Date Coverage: Journal Articles: Arts and Humanities: 1975 to present; Sciences: 1945 to present; Social Sciences: 1900 to present.; Conference Proceedings: 1990-present; Books: 2005-present
Materials Indexed: Books; Conference Proceedings; Journal Articles
Alternate Titles: Science Citation Index
The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository is an open access collection of books and reports, including over 4,000 dealing with the economic and public policy impacts of climate change around the world.
Date Coverage: Mostly 2007-presen
Materials Indexed: Books; Government Documents; Journal Articles; Reports
As the name suggests, this is a premier database for finding political science scholarship, and has over 5,000 records dealing with the political implications of climate change.
Date Coverage: 1975 - present
Materials Indexed: Book Chapters; Book Reviews; Books; Journal Articles; Theses & Dissertations